The world stopped for a moment on December 8, 1980 when a deranged man killed John Lennon outside his home in New York.
Suddenly the flashbacks of the musical dream that he had starred in with The Beatles shook a society that had grown with his songs.
A decade earlier, John was crying in an almost empty cinema watching a documentary that narrated the end of the band, of his band.
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The Beatles' journey barely lasted a decade, John's solo lasted another ten years.
You cannot do more in less time.
In those two stages of his career John Lennon changed, along with other greats, music and popular culture.
The Beatles' career is fascinating, Lennon's solo too.
After the collapse of the
Liverpool
gang
there was a race to get to the shops and to win over others.
In 1970 the last work of The Beatles was published and in just a few months the solo albums of Paul McCartney, Ringo, George Harrison and Lennon himself also arrived.
A dark stage in the history of the band marked by statements out of tune and reproaches in the form of a song.
Competitions on the sidelines, the 1970s were a roller coaster ride for John.
In those years, Lennon became a front-line political activist who fought
an open-field battle against President Nixon and the FBI.
It was also the decade of self-discovery, of making mistakes, of giving up his violent nature.
They were the years of John and Yoko, but those years ended in an 18-month separation that the musician dubbed "the lost weekend."
JOHN LENNON RECORD
1970 John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band
1971 Imagine
1972 Some Time in New York City
1973 Mind Games
1974 Walls and Bridges
1975 Rock \ 'n \' Roll
1980 Double Fantasy
The reconciliation was embodied in the birth of his first child and in John's withdrawal from music to give his second son the attention that he could not give the first. The biggest music star left him to care for his family. When Sean Lennon started school,
John set up his comeback with a double album.
Two weeks after reaching the stores, the musician was assassinated. More than half a million people mourned his death in a ceremony in Central Park, in front of his house.
John's eventful decade was accompanied by an interesting collection of records, albums that showcased John's genius as a songwriter and as a singer.
A discography that is not perfect, but in which there are peaks of enormous brilliance and songs that are part of the history of music.
This week we review those records and that stage in the company of
Sheila Blanco, Fernando Neira and Lucía Taboada.
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